Ace Indian tennis participant Rohan Bopanna and his Australian males’s doubles accomplice Matthew Ebden began their ATP Finals marketing campaign on a shedding notice, struggling a straight-set defeat in a gaggle stage match. Bopanna and Ebden have been defeated by the Italian duo of Simone Bolelli and Andrea Vavassori 2-6, 3-6 in simply 56 minutes in Turin on Monday. The Indo-Australian pair had defeated their opponents on this 12 months’s Australian Open remaining. Bolelli and Vavassori, the fourth seeds, dominated from the outset, breaking their rivals within the second recreation.
A double fault by the Indo-Australian pair within the eighth recreation allowed the Italians to safe one other break of serve, additional thwarting any hopes of a comeback.
Buoyed by the native help, Bolelli and Vavassori continued their domination within the second set as effectively, taking the essential break within the fourth recreation.
Bopanna, who’s showing within the event for the fourth time, and Ebden, struggled to match their Italian opponents, failing to earn even a single break level all through the match.
The serving woes added to their difficulties, as they received solely 58% of factors (19 out of 33) on their first serve and 47% (7 out of 15) on their second.
In distinction, the Italians have been way more environment friendly, successful 89% of factors on their first serve (31 out of 35) and 83% on their second (5 out of 6).
Moreover, Bopanna and Ebden dedicated two double faults, each of which led to breaks of serve.
The defeat marked Bopanna and Ebden’s third consecutive defeat to the Italians this 12 months.
Bopanna and Ebden lie fourth within the Bob Bryan Group. They are going to tackle prime seeds Marcelo Arevalo of El Salvador and Croatian Mate Pavic of their subsequent group recreation on Wednesday.
They’d reached the semifinals within the final version.
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